Old Man Yells At Cloud

[Thomas Jollans]

On 2017-09-20 17:06, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 10:08:18 +1000, Steve D'Aprano
> <steve+python at pearwood.info> declaimed the following:
> 
>> For what its worth: from Python 3.5 (I think) onwards the error you get is
>> customized:
>>
>> py> print 1
>>  File "<stdin>", line 1
>>    print 1
>>          ^
>> SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'
>>
> 
> 	So... "print" (the function") is still a special case for the
> interpreter...
> 

Thankfully just the interpreter, and not you or me.

Also, print is not alone in this regard:

Python 3.6.0 |Continuum Analytics, Inc.| (default, Dec 23 2016, 12:22:00)
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-1)] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> print 1
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    print 1
          ^
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'
>>> exec 'print 1'
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    exec 'print 1'
                 ^
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'exec'
>>> exec('print 1')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<string>", line 1
    print 1
          ^
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'
>>>




-- 
Thomas Jollans